Wow, it’s been hot. Really, really hot. One of the principle problems about living in a country that doesn’t often have 30C temperatures is the fact we aren’t equipped to deal with it. Our homes don’t have air conditioning therefore at night, its very hot and stick and difficult to sleep. New York, on the other hand, always has a hot humid summer and because of that nearly every single apartment is equipped with air conditioning.
I was watched GMTV yesterday morning and they came up with all these brilliant ideas to keep you cool at night when sleeping. They were:
1. Freeze a water bottle and then place it in front of a fan which should then cool the air down
Right, so this frozen water bottle thing. Its going to unfreeze and get warm isn’t it? Yes. I bet when I wake up two hours after going to sleep its going to be a lukewarm bottle of water in front of an irritatingly noisy fan and will have precisely fuck all benefit. Excellent.
2. Take a cool bag to bed with you and keep a towel in it so if you wake up, you have a nice cool towel to put over yourself.
So, a cool bag with, I presume, freezer packs in it, right? Yet again, the key element here is that the freezer bags will melt and the cool bag will no longer be cool resulting in a towel that is about as refreshing as a salt sandwich. There is genius at work here, I’m telling you.
3. Make sure you have some cold water beside the bed so you can drink it if you wake up dehydrated.
But it won’t be cold in a couple of hours will it? Do you see the pattern emerging?
So, the answer to keeping cool at night, is to make sure you have a bedroom that is fully equipped with a fridge and freezer so all these cool things are neatly to hand when you wake up sweating your tits off.
GMTV – television for morons, written by morons and presented by….. yes, that’s right, morons.